leão
Portuguese
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese leon (“lion”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin leōnem, accusative singular of leō (“lion”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Cognate with Galician león, Spanish león, Catalan lleó, Occitan leon, French lion, Italian leone and Romanian leu.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 333: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Portugal" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈljɐ̃w̃/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 333: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /le.ˈɐ̃w̃/
- Homophone: Leão
- Hyphenation: le‧ão
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
Noun
leão m (plural leões, feminine leoa, feminine plural leoas)
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Categories:
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese 1-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with homophones
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Heraldic charges
- pt:Mammals
- pt:Panthers